The vulnerability of the figurehead is at the center of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting of Charles I: most kings get their heads cut off. …
Elizabeth Willis
When I found your face on a pillow of leaves …
in the wind / an inky air …
When I was a child, my eye was older than an oak. …
The shipwrecked man creates a monarchy of one. …
April fool …
The first writer to sign her name to a poem is said to be Enheduanna, a Mesopotamian woman who wrote on a tablet, millennia before Mary’s son divided the clock into before and after. …
A witch can charm milk from an ax handle. …
Tragedy saunters to the pit, swinging its depth charge. If you had X-ray vision you could watch these bones climbing the Mountain Vainglorious without quite touching the ground. Let's ruin our letters, erase all foreign prospect. So many expeditions are but fictive inflections, the garbled ambition of someone stepping up with, like, something less lovely than the legs of Rome. Thumb power instead of “timber:" The answer from above the stage rattles our windows, a modern letter sent from antiquity, its blurred flourish abundantly gutted. …
What direction does your sentence move: you belonging to the land or the land belonging to you. …